Served as the U.S. Personnel Exchange Program (PEP) officer at the United Kingdom’s (UK) Joint Air Reconnaissance Intelligence Centre. Assigned as Flight Commander of 4th Flight, B Squadron and attached to HQ, Ops Wing, responsible for reviewing and coordinating all requests for imagery tasking. Evaluates and prioritized all requests for collection, exploitation, and reporting requirements to optimize the application of available resources and to ensure that tasking within system constraints. Conducted research and created nominations for entry into a select database in direct support of the Defence Intelligence Staff (DIS) of the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD). Imagery analysis duties included the review and production of intelligence reports and studies on select foreign power’s critical ground assets. • Served as conduit of support for UK Ministry of Defense intelligence agencies to receive US national support towards counterdrug efforts in the British Isles and internationally • Directly supervised military intelligence collection resources and intelligence analysts reporting on ground assets capabilities in Iraq, Afghanistan, Korea and South America • Expert adviser to the British Army on key issues and functioned as the JARIC focal point for 52 senior officer visits • U.S. liaison within UK Defence Intelligence Staff and the UK commonwealth intelligence community • Commander of 4th Flight, B squadron to breach the service gap between the Royal Air Force and British Army

Imagery Intelligence Officer

Start Date: 1974-03-01End Date: 1982-06-01

Initially completed various operational junior officer front line posts in Great Britain, Northern Ireland and RAF Germany, supporting and developing established airborne reconnaissance operations including Phantom, Canberra, Harrier, Beaver, Puma, Scout and introduction of Recce Jaguar and Tornado platforms. Tours included Senior P.I. Officer ( SPIO) RICNI and RIC Site Commander ( RAFG Harrier Force) , being the youngest ever appointee in both those posts. Consequently selected for post-graduate university training in support of the planned introduction and management of various digital imagery systems into U.K. service. Subsequently was initial team member introducing digital processing operations into the multi-sensor Imagery Interpretation environment. Head of U.K. JARIC specialist IMINT cell during that unit's initial operational support to Op.Corporate (Falklands).